All Things "Pulling": RFP Round 3- Weighted

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~3 weeks after the last Fighter Pullup program detailed here, plans to go ballistic on arms and shoulders brute-strength training was de-railed once again...

...Another impromptu decision was made to commit one more month to , yes.... more pulling. This time with weighted [+10kg] reps.

Again, the difficult part was determining how many reps to start with... always mindful of how the final week's numbers would look like. Mentally assessing the feasibility and strength capability.

Browsing through the log of all weighted pullup sessions done previously... decided Start Day (6 Aug) to go with just a modest 8 reps. 9 would mean ending the last week with starting sets of 13 reps! Honestly I don't think that highly of myself to be able to pull through such numbers...

At 12, it's probably my max.  With +10kg weighted pullup so far, I'm usually just doing 7-8 reps. This time I'm already starting at this range from Day 1, so...

 

This time more daily detailing were added to capture for later reflection and analysis.


 Final day highlights on IG

Full recording of each day's sets and reps for post training analysis in this playlist

03 Sep 2024...it's the morning of Day 30 now. A rest is definitely in order, to prepare for upcoming AMRAP and PR testings...

... (to be updated)


07 Sep 2024... Finally,  D-Day  H-Hour is here. A whole month's work in just a couple of minutes

AMRAP-PullUp: 22     1RM-PullUp: 40kg




AMRAP-PullUP[+10kg] - 12 (not maxing properly -- will try again another day)
AMRAP- 1hr.PullUp - ... to be updated
 
 
 
 
 


 

 

 

 

 

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